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FOSDEM Interviews

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-up dept.

FOSDEM writes "The first FOSDEM speakers' interviews are available on the FOSDEM website. The FOSDEM folks have produced 3 great interviews of Alexander Larsson from Nautilus (Gnome), Matthias Ettrich from KDE and Olivier Fourdan from XFCE."

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  1. Re:Freedesktop by asv108 · · Score: 4, Informative
    The KDE mentions a little bit of cooperation, and the XFCE guy outright stats that they don't pay a lot of attention to it. The exact words of the Oliver:

    Olivier Fourdan - We are not much involved in the freedesktop.org group. In fact, we try to stay compliant with the freedesktop.org standards as much as we can but we take no part in the standards themselves. We have very limited resources, and being involved with the freedesktop.org would probably mean less involvement with Xfce (well, at least for me).

    XFCE4 is compliant with many freedesktop.org standards, but their developers are not involved in writing the standards.

  2. Re:Freedesktop by erikharrison · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Umm, I haven't read Olivier's interview yet, but as a minor Xfce developer I can say that the project does the opposite of ignore fd.o. In fact, during the 4.0 development process, Xfce was ahead of Gnome in it's implementation. There was even some talk of thinking of Xfce as a reference implementation of a desktop built to fully utilize the standard.

    fd.o is gaining momentum. I think the problem with fd.o is that it's low barrier to entry means that people want to standardize _everything_ almost to the point that no innovation can occur.

    But XDND? The icon's spec? The MIME spec? Xsettings? .desktop files? All pretty major fd.o accomplishments, all implemented by the 4 major OS Desktop Environments (KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Rox). In fact, the MIME spec is pretty facinating in that it's a case of an extremely minor player in the OS desktop, Rox, was doing one thing better than anyone else, and saw pretty quick adoption on all sides essentially just by presenting what they were already doing as a proposed standard.